A San Francisco jury has found Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of murdering Kate Steinle in a case that attracted national attention to San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy. Zarate’s attorneys argued that he accidentally killed Steinle on San Francisco’s Embarcadero when he picked up an object wrapped in a towel that he didn’t know was a gun and it fired. Zarate had been deported five times and was wanted for a sixth deportation when Steinle was killed.

Guests:

Alex Emslie, KQED News reporter

Lara Bazelon, associate law professor, USF School of Law

Jim Hammer, San Francisco prosecutor and former San Francisco police commissioner

Lara Bazelon is a law professor, author, and contributing writer for Slate. Her op-eds and essays have also been published in the New York Times,Washington Post, and Politico, among other media outlets. Her book, Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction, will be published in the fall of 2018.